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Dedicated to Oongi-ess in Washington and Richmond. 



THE MEDIATOR 



BETWEEN 



NORTH AND SOUT 




OR, 



THE SEVEN POINTERS OF THE NORTH STAR. 



THOUGHTS OF AN AMERICAN 

IN THE WILDERNESS. 



Bise Americans, and abolish the heavy chainsi, 
Made, by the self-interest of clergy and tyrants, 
To enslave the world — by opposing the truth. 
That reason is superior to any religion. 



BALTIMORE 



1863. 
Sold, by Chas. H. Anderson, :^o. 458 7th Strent Ifortti Wwhlngton, D, C- 



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" Tet let us ponder boldly — 'tis a base 
Abandonment of reason to resign 
Our right of thought — our last and only place 
Of refuge ; this, at least, shall still be mine : 
Though from our birth the faculty divine 
Is chain'd and tortured — cabin'd, crlbb'd, confined, 
And brod In darkness, lest the truth should shine 
Too brightly on the unprepared mind, 
The beam pours in, for time and skill will couch the blind." — Byron 



PREFACE. 

Last year, the tone of the newspaper press turned so much against my opinion on 
public affiwrs; that I thought, either myself or the oHitors of the leading newspapers 
must be devoid of sound senee. Although born and raised a plebian, I felt it mv 
dmy, asa citizen of the United States, to express my opinion on public affairs 
through the^ press I got my ideas on the negro question while I was a private sol- 
dier in the United Kates Army on the Southwestern frontier, for which reason I 
ral .hem "thoughts in the wilderness " My first production of the Me.liator was 
faulty and highly prejadicial, on account that I did not want to disturb religion In 
taking my foundation partly from the Mosaic doctrines, I found that I hadliuiltmy 
temple on a bottomless swamp ; and it wont down, because it could not stand the 
criticism of mtelhgent, reasonable men. My friends upbraided me for spending 
money and time on such unprofltable husinefs, and making myself a ridicule to the 
public. I could not explaiu to them the justice, truth and importance of my doc- 
trme; and f am stiU considered a fool My consolation was that Ciiristopher Colum- 
bus was considered a fool for trying to go to the East Indies by a western route My 
friends only saw the wide, bare and unprofitable ocean of my enterprise, but not the 
land beyond it. After having distributed several thousand pamphlets, the maioiity 
of the readers pronounced it a crazv piece of literature; others were iiKliffereut and 
a few considered the pamphlet partly, a piece of genius. My pecuniary means bein^^ 
exhausted, 1 had to quit disirihuting pamphlets, and go to work again In the 
meantmifc I corrected former mi^takes, and took my platform from sound reason 
and philantarophy, and now do believe, to be able to defend every seiutence of thia 
edition by common sense, reason, philosophy and the history of the world 

Keason has never been popular with the masses of the people, because there are too 
many castes ID society— people act more like automats, than rational beings witfi 
eoui and body. Eeason is oaly obtainable by individuals who are not afraid of the 
grave labors of thinking. The majoi ity of people are so much occupied and interested 
with pecuniary bususess, that they will not, cuinot, or dare not reason. 

It is the self-interest of permanent goverment to uphold castes; from the lowest 
and most ignorant caste they derive their strongest support; therefore it is their self- 
interest to keep them ignorant. Ihe spirit of the tim^s prevents kings from oppos- 
ing knowledge m a direct way, but they accomplish their object indirectly by 
education, literature and religion, because kings and clergy are always frieuds-l 
they have been absolute rulers of the masses of their subjects as ion^>^ as they sup- 
ported each other. According to history they have supported each other oven at 
the expense ot misery to millions of innocent people, the present war oiiginafc^d 
from the pulpit. Byron says: "Philosophy, wisdom and liberty support each other- 
he who wdl not reason, is a bigot; ho who cannot, ib a tool; and "he who dares not is a 
slave. But punishment has better effect on the masses of the peop e than ali sue- 
epistles. By adversity a fool may become a wse man, and a great national calamity 
may be the cause of a national reform. This war has lasted long enough to show 
any thinking man the folly of it. It is to be hoped, that it will causa people 
to think about tr.eir self-preservatioa asd future prosperity, else our seif-destruction 
will be a lesson m history lo other nations, and teach them, that it is better to meditate 
and think serious; before acting seiiously. 

In the present century the greatest historical crisis has commenced. Modern forms 
ot government, philosophy, art, science, education, religion and literature in general 
with Its numerous complicated branches, will sooner or later break down u.K'er their 
own weight; and out of their ruins, better and simple forms will arise, which will en- 
able a future generation, to obtain a sound knowledge of thmgd in general -without 
breaking down their physical consiitution, as such is often the case in modern educa- 
tion. With the advance of reason and philosophy, tyrants, clergx men convents 
nunneries, courts, standing armies, police, jails, poorhouses, lunatic asylums' and other 
such individuals, societies and institutions will be found superfluous to the'wdfaro of 
an enhghttned nation, and by degrees abolished for the good of mankind in general- 



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not by any arbitrary measures, but as a natural consequence of a better and enlight- 
ened general education. 

When public opinion Lb misguided and enslaved by self-interesting motives of 
cle'-gy and politicians, it is the ruin of public liberty. 'J he people generally, 
receive their education under supervisiou of the clergy, who teach "that certain g'jv- 
ernments has a divine right to rule," and to reason or investigate about the raiit'er is 
considered sin and disloyalty. No wonder, that the cry in the North is "Hurrah for 
the Union 1' and in the South "Hurrah for the Confederacy ! ' If nothing extraordi- 
nary turns vip, the parties will bee jme a.^ distinct nationalities as Russia and Poland. 
One evil generally produces another. Wars make it necessary to put the screws of 
oppression on the people which now-a-davs, has the effect; that it makes the rich, 
richer ; the poor, p lorer ; the cunning gets into office ; the clergy gets influence, and 
the governmen's become absolute rulers. Jt appears, as if the leaders on both sides 
were working at this object by a regular plan, supportetl by the actions of the clergy 
on the wedt sides of human nature. This is called a divine order of things, and it is 
natural for rulers, to take as much of such divine right as they possibly can. IHuch per- 
manent divine governments over intelligent white men, become in the course of time 
too complicated and the people too corrupted, that the structures naturally fall to 
pieces ike complicated, worn out machines, but such epochs come to pass so grad- 
ually, that the mnsses of the people do not perceive them. The lower cla,!;ses are 
kept too busy, producing food and luxuries for themselves and the numerous non- 
pri.ducers, as to think about the cause of their bondage and miseries. The clergy preach- 
es to such slaves "that their misery is a divine order of things," and promises c<im- 
pens-ition in heaven; and tho-^^e, who can believe in a future happy life, re^^ign t j their 
late, and after all, live about as happy as their oppressors. ^Although the resur- 
rection of meu is as impossible as the resunectioa of chickens, after they have been 
kil'ed, cleaned, fried and ate. In this respect, the negroes in the so-called free Stateg 
have the advantage over wh'te men, their common sense orjustinct don't allow them, 
to degrade themselves wilfully, }>slow as white men. 

Iguorance leads to castes in S(;ciety; but the present generation of men are far dif- 
ferent from those of a thousand years ago, because intellect is ever advancing, and 
with its progress, the white race will know its purpose and destiny on earth — they 
will see the majesty of self-government and the injurious effects of castes in a nation 
of intell gent white men. 'I'be emancipation of the negroes would naturally lead to 
castes, and the efforts to accomplish it, are as unreasonable, ms the stubburn efforts to 
stop the source of a river, bj means of enormous dams. Men should bear in mind, 
that superstition and prejudice will vanish before the dawning light of reason, which 
is caused by the ever-growing and almighty power of mteliect. intellect exists to 
conquer and rule nature, until the end of time; that is, when the earth becomes ex- 
tinct; or, iu plainer language, dies by old age, disease, or some other cause. Another 
eruption cf the globe would not annihilate our monuments entirely. 

Some of the original ideas of this pamphlet may have the fate of Pythagoras' doc- 
trine on the motions of the solar system. The ptople at that time were not intelli- 
gent enough to comprehend them, and not until more than 2,000 years after Pytha- 
goras' death, were his doctrines revived by Copernicus, in spite of the opposition of 
the clergy. But the spirit of the times moves taster uow than ever, it will not take 
over 50 or 100 years for the overthrow of miraculous doctrines in some intelligent 
nations, and why not should America take the lead, on a route, which must be trav- 
elled by all intelligent nations of white men ? .Delay and opposition to progress 
are injurious to national welfare, and it is better, to travel this route voluntarily; 
than to be drove by necessity, or to perish. 

'I'he United States are naturally adapted fur the peaceable homes of white men, 
with a Republican form of Government. The present generation can have it so, if 
tbey wouhi Fay, unanimously, so shall it be. But the difficulty is the negro question, 
for this reason 1 have published this jjami^hlet, and hope, that the fathers and law- 
givers of the country will investigate the justice and truth of my arguments. 

THE AUTHOR. 

WaBhington, D. C November, 1863. 

t'otisfaction can be got for every argument in this Pamphlet, or the first volume of 
the new American Bible, by addreefiing "Patriot," Washington, D. C. 



THOUGHTS OF AN AMERICAN 

IlSr XIEIE ^V^ILIDE^llSrESS. 

UoiTO— Is not the earth given to ^hite men, to conquer aod rule itf 



At present, ths world is composed of two parts — nature and soul. Soul is intellect, 
its origin is thinking, and it has its centre in the brain. It exists to conquer and 
rule nature. Every white man has power, more or less, to do so. • 

Nature is the formation of animal and vegetable life, caused by variation of heat, 
which is the mainspring of natural motion; therefore, combination of heat with other 
matter is the cause of auimals and plants. For instance, the smaller insects create 
by a small amount of heat. Bloodheat is necessary to create filth and vermin on 
animals. More than bloodheat were necessary to create the larger plants with our do- 
mestic and wild animals; but th« amount of heat or cold necessary for the creation of 
heavenly bodies, is too great for our calculations. 

The tmaller insects create and generate without sexual connection or seed, by mil- 
lions, at short intervals — larger insects are less prolific. The whale is the least pro- 
lific of our animals; therefore it is reasonable to suppose, that heavenly bodies are 
singular in their species, and create (and perhaps generate) by combination or disso- 
lution of their matter, which can originate by extraordinary variation of heat in the 
universe. 

The formation of heavenly bodies may be explained as an electrified magnetic drop, 
injected by sexual connection into the womb of an animal, becomes animated and 
grows — so are heavenly bodies but electrified magnetic drops, which, according to 
their temperature as liquid or solid balls of matter, become animated and organized 
on their travel through space. 

Beason and intellect explain the origin of heavenly bodies, and our animals and 
plants, without the aid of an intelligent being. No intelligence is needed to direct 
the course of heavenly bodies, or the rotation of season, or the generation of aniaiuls, 
or the growing of plants. All physical beings created, live and generate by necessity. 
There is no chaos in nature — ail is order without any real system. 

Men have never really perceived in nature a supernatural, omnipotent and intelli- 
gent power, which is called God. Such a power would be superfluous in nature, 
therefore it is a chimera, feople in olden times frightened or stared, at thunder, 
lightning, eclipses, rainbows or other phenomenons of nature; the same as animals 
frighten at cannonading or a moving locomotive, and stare at a solemn church pro- 
cession or other such ceremonies. Now we look on those phenomenons in a dilforent 
light. The time of miracles is past, and things we do not comprehend now are no 
miracles. They will be dissolved in the course of lime — they may no w appear tver 
so miraculous. There may be an omnipotent and intelligent power or God in exis- 
tence, some where beyond the universe; but if it were necessary that we should know 
him, he would certainly give notice of himself. Thus far, no supernatural, omni- 
potent and intelligent power is known in nature; therefore it is folly to search after, or 
believe in a God, and consequently neglect our national and domestic aSairs. 

Intellect is the product ol lime and a different power from nature, although it is 
absolute, like nature with its laws, because it must grow, form and letorm. Uarba- 
rians have overrun and conquered intelligent nations, nevertheless, the edifices and 
literature of those extinct ancient nations will outlive the miracles of the Christian 
religion, with its temples and upholders. The sruggle may last for the next 600 
years, but reason and philosophy must be victorious, because, progress is absolute 
and will have its sway, even if it were over the ruins of the governments of a dozen 
or more now prosperous nations. 



Our will is not absolute; our liappiaess or misery depends mostly Upon our educa- 
tion. Men Avho are taught to be guided by sound reason are naturally virtuous. — 
Men who are enslaved by imaginary religious chains, are dangerous to the welfare of 
society. The greatest individual, social and national crimes were authorized by re- 
ligion. The origin of religion is animal propensity,** and as such exists for sora^ pur- 
pose, which wiW perhaps not be expounded, until all its effect's on mankind are known. 

Immediately after the eruption of the globe, nothing but atoms ruled on earth 
fur days; animalcula and plants ruled on earth for weeks; f injects rnled on earth 
for months ; birds and the smaller mamalia ruled on earth f jr years ; roving aui- 
mals luled on earth for centuries ; uncivilized men ruled on earih for thousands uf 
years before history ; ^tlie vanities and passions of human nature rule earth sioce 
history; and in future, reason and intellect will rule the earth far hundreds <>» 
thousands or perhaps millions of years. «. 

Atoms are lood for animalcula and plants; animalcula and plants are food for in- 
sects ; inscects are food for birds; birds and the smaller mamalia are food for tlje 
larger birds and mamalia; animals and jilants in general, are food for men; men arcs 
food for the vanities and passions of human nature/the vanities and passions of human 
nature are food for intellect; intellect is food |f or the universe ; the univer.>-e is food 
for eternity ; and eternity may be food for a ulod. ^ ' 

Insects conquered animalcula in less than days; birds and the smaller mamali* 
conquered insects in weeks ; the larger mamalia conquered the smaller mamalia in 
months ; men conquered the animal kingdom in years ; the vanities and passions of 
human nature conquered men in centuries. The conquest of intellect over the vani- 
ties and passions of human nature, is not dependant on such rules ; it depends upon 
the different grades of freedom of actions ; if voluntarily, it may be done in a minute, 
an hour, a week, a year, or a number of years ; but if left to its natural course, it 
takes centuries or perhaps thousands of years. This conquest will not confine itself 
to any particular nation, it is absolute, and free on earth, as the light of the sun ;- 1 
and most godly nations, will rule the less divine. 

If the universe were intelligent, the conquest over our products of intellect, might 
no,t last longer than a century; but as it is; it will take thousands, perhaps million.'j 
of years. The conquest of eternit}^ (intelligent or nut in its essence) over the imi- 
veise, most naturally last more than billions of centuries Anything outside of tbis, 
is beyond our cromprehension. 

There is living atoms, who change universal inumerable in less than time. 

A draught of foul air will create and generate on a plate of hominy or ricej'*- 
thousands of bilhons of small animals (only perceivable through a microscoije) • 
in the course of twelve hours; and one drought of extraordinary hot or cold air 
v;ill exterminate them in a moment. A few hot and sultry days will create and 
generate millions of hies in a suitable place, and one chilly night will reduce them 
to a tew stragglers. A hot and wet season will create and generate millions of worms, 
and a frost will cause their death. The eruptions of the earth, caused mamalia to 
create by thousands, and generate to live for thousands or perhaps millions of years.' 
iStars create single in eternity. 

Atoms,"animalcula, flies,worms, mamalia, with its animal propensities, (including 
leligion,) and the stars, created by some cause, and exist for some purpose, aud alter 
this is accomplished they make room for something else. All beings, from the small- 
est atoms to the largest stars, are as necessary to one another as if they were a part 
of one great animal. 

For what purpose did men (especially white men) create more helpless and nalccd 
than any other animals? 

Could it be for anything else,[than to create and enlarge the absolute powers of in- 
tellect; and, consequently, the earth to become populated and cultivated, as far as prac- 
ticable. The white race must become necessarily the only ruling race on earth. The 
most intelligent nations are the most powerftil and immortal. It is a decree of the 
universe. 'I'he cultivation of the earth hiis effect upon it and other heavenly bodies: 
consequently the absolute powers of intellect are somewhat related to the universe 
The white race has power over all the rest of mankind, the animal and vegetable 
kingdom, the treasures of eartli and ocean, and we are no more happy for it. Our 
supremacy, is but a bare compensation for our extraordinary physical and mentjtl 
jtams; nevertheless, intellect is the stronger, better aud immortal part of man, there- 
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Meu were made wbeu soul came into existence, from, a qlags pf, the two-legged, 
animals without tails, wMcli is called the humau race. 

Hach class of the human race, but especially the white class,, has mauy different 
species. The principal classes with the species thereof, have amalgamated to a great,,, 
extent. 1'he white race looses physically by amalgamation with any of the other " 
races; but improves by intermarrying with its different species. 

The intellect or thinking puwor of the white race is unlimited as the universe. — 
'I'he intellect of the yelluw race of Eastern Asia is extended as the waters of the oceans, 
'ibe intellect of the red race of America is limited as the plains they roam on. The 
mtellect of the broWn race is small as the compass of the islands they inhabit. JS'o 
mtellect is jierceivable in the black, race. Ihe negro kings in Atrica, bave a propen- 
sity to conquer and rule, but it is contiued to their own race, as such is the ca.se with 
bee or ant kings. 

The destiny of the white race is; Never to be in peace and rest, no til philosophy 
rules. When one prejudice is conquered, another reforming genius aiises. The 
LLasses of the people have always been against reformers. They are persecuted, and 
often die the deatn as martyrs. But their immortal soul performs their work bravely,, 
hfter their bodies have turned to dust. History shows that only individuals havu 
civihzed the world; all of them, without exception, men of the white race. 

Everybody is not a genius that his name should be recorded in history, but let 
huudreds, thousands, or millions of men unite, with the intention to do anything, 
and such units can accomplish historical deeds of shame, scandal, folly, honor or 
majesty, just as tiiey please to choose their leaders, and history is the highest 
I ri banal.'-" 

•Some trees bear better fruit than others of the same species; some animals are more 
beautiful than others ol' the same species, and some men have a superior quality of 
brain than others of the same species. It is not the quantity, but it is the quality of 
brain, that makes grtat men, iNature has not favored a genius more than a block- 
head. The greatest men sutiered generally the greatest physical and mental pains. 

it is resonable to suppose, that the doctrmes of some ancient philosphers of the 
white race were persecuted, for opposing some national prejudicee, and found a good 
itccptiou among the (Jhme^e, elevating them to the most civilized nation on earin f 

Proud of this, they buiid a wall around their empire, to prevent amalgamation with 
other nations. TLey .- uuc their gates, and lived several thousand years in peace and 
liappiness, under the ('^Jiniou, they were the wisest and most civilized nation on earth, 
untd John Bull and Li other Jonathan knocked a hole in their wall, and dictated lawa 
to ihem. 'J'o their surprise, they found out they were 500 years behind times. If 
the white race had not interfered, it is likely they would have, 2,000 years from now, 
the same habits, laws, and government they had before the last war. China is not 
able to produce a relormer among her people, therefore the white man will j)Ut bis 
loot upon it. 

We tind no traces of the v/hite race in the history of the aborigines of America, except 
the remains ol some structures on the Pacific shore, which show that the soul of a white 
man has been the architect of them. Toe people there look upon them as a mys- 
tery, it is reasonable to suj)pose that the species of the two-legged animals where 
white men were made from, also grew from the slime-animalca in different regions of 
America, the same as in Asia and Europe. They became men, as we see on their 
edifices. It is reasonable to suppose they had no gunpowder or whiskey, and were 
exterminated by the rfed men. ihe doom of the different tribes (who have not mixed 
with the whites) is: To die off, under the inlluences of luxury and spirits, which 
the white man brings into their communities. , 

The first settlers of the country soon found themselves in possession of large tracts 
of laud. It was a rule in the country they came from, that land-owers were not ssp- 
posed to work hard. i^Jutwithstanoing, it was necessary for the land-owners either 
to work harder starve; and to oveicjine what they deemed an evil, they commenced 
the traffic in negros Irom Africa, it proved successful, and they continued on till 
stopped by Government. What a folly 1 Tlie Chinese, an inferior race to uh, build 

*The efforts of the GOO patriotic Sp.irtans to oppose the advance of Xerxes, will shine;— the iileas and 
efiorts of the remnant few thous.antl Comanche Indians, to i>romote their race ; will shine and propagate; 
but the fanatical eUbrts of the millions, to put white men on equal with negroes; will die; ami stink; 
until the end of time. 

tXot much reliance can be given to tlie correctness of remote ancient history ; becauss it lias ever 
been supervised ; 'and was mostly written by ecclesiasticals. (Compare with tli« supposilion, in the first 
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a ivall to prevent foreign nations from anaalgamation with their race, and we, a nation 
of white men, with an opportunity to be the greatest power on earth, imported the 
negro, to breed on our lands and amalgamate with us. Although the negroes are a 
class of the human race, it is as unreasonable, to call them men as it is to call the pre- 
sent generation of men, quarter or semi-gods. 

The difference between men and animals is : That a man has a soul and an animal 
has none. Some people are under the delusion that a negro has a seul, becausa he 
has religion The origin of religion is one of the animal propensities. 

For instance, take ignorant men, a stallion or gelding, bull or ox, how often they 
get afraid of something, when they have no occasion to be afraid of it. It is called 
fright in animals, and after it is cultivated, it is called pious in us. The origin of 
reason,** love, hatred, pride, imitation, memory, envy, sympathy, morality in gen- 
eral, are animal propensities, they have their centre in the feelings of the heart. — 
Civilized negroes have all of those propensities in some degree. They are more or less 
perceivable on all domestic animals ; and even can be seen on some oi the wild ani- 
mals. The propensity of self preservation is found in all animals wiUiout exception ; 
it has its centre in the digestive and sexual organs, and keeps the whole of the animal 
kingdom in motion. A negro can ape after a white man. He can be taught to 
learn different branches of art and science to some extent, but out of bis brain an im- 
provement never came. For instance, take a lot of negroes, the most civilized m the 
United States, of pure African blood; give them provisions for several years, domes- 
tic animals and tools, send them to an uninhabited island in the Pacific Oceau, and 
let them have no commimication with white men. The natural consequences will 
be, in two generations they are, what their forefathers were in Africa. 

Take a lot of white men, of the lowest class, give them the same opportunity, and 
aftej one generation they will have improved themselves, although the most mistakes 
and greater iniquities are found in the white race f 

Nothing shows for the negro that he has a soul ; therefore he should be classed 
among animals. Where white men have not interlered with him, he is on equal with 
the beaver, swallow, honeybee or pismire. 

But unfortunately, the clergy has involved reason and intellect with such a thick 
veil of prejudices and mysteries, that the majority of men cannot see these facts, be- 
cauf-e all people appear alike black in the dark. Without the negro question, the 
world might have been kept in darkness for centuries longer. Circumstances invite 
us to lift or tear this veil, if we do not do it, thinking people in Europe will. The 
soul of Americans, as a nation, is under trial now — our national existence is at stake. 

The struggle of reason against an injurious religion has commenced. Will the 
Goddess of Liberty, or the self-exterminating war parties, North and Bouih, (with the 
prejudices of the Mosaic Bible as a platform,) be victorious? 

'I'o settle the negro question, we must become philosophers. According to ancient 
history, Moses spent forty years to teach the Israelites to be warriors to conquer Ca- 
naan. Forty years civil war will not mako us philosophers. Would it not be better 
for the clergy to represent Jesus Christ as a great moral teacher and philosopher, 
than to make a charlatan and loafer of him ? Would we not be better people phy- 
sical, moral and intellectual, if we were taught to worship naked truth in place of 
humbug ? 

The negro was the cause of seccession. After the so-called war for the Union is 
over, the negro will be the cause of another civil, or a foreign war, if no decisive 
means are taken to settle the negro question. 

Our armies are now invading the South. Our soldiers, after getting familiar with 
th'e country and institutions there, will see the folly of the emancipation bill. 

In the Gulf Slates, where the white people iacreases slowly, the negro breeds pro- 
lific. If the negro there, is not kept by master and whip, he will impose ujion the 
white man. The climate and his majority favor him there. 

Negro property was born and raised with the Southern peojile. The thinkiog 
men there recognize it as a national sin. This evil is over a hundred years old, and it 
takes more than a hundred years to oure it effectually. 

Tne negro question has been discussed in Congress for many years. Piles of books 
have been written about it, and it has boon the cause of many street-fights and 
duels. 

•RcosoQ and Instinct are one and th« fame motives. 

tTh« greatest iniquities of modem times, are the efforts to Cbriatlanize foreign pagaoS; to civilize tbt 
Comanche Indians, and to make Americans out of negroes. 



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When argument is exhatuted, and no judge or jury can be found powerful enough 
to settle a dispute and enforce a judgment or sentence, the case will fail back to the 
law of nature, and the parties will fight it out, the same as two low-bred, or pas- 
sionate men, or two cocks would fight out a dispute or grudge between them. It one 
party is considerably weaker than the other, peace is soon restored. But when the 
averyt and anti-slav^ery parties go to war, the United States will never recover. 

The negro question is jike the oracle of the Gordian knot, which said: " Whoev er 
unlooses this knot shall be ruler over this country." The priest knew, if a mau at- 
tempted to unloose a knot with his hngers, whicti could not be unloosened that way. 
such a man was not fit to regulate a government in disorder, Alexander the Great 
on bis travels, came to this place, looked at the knot, took his sword and cut it. 'J he 
United States, in this crisis, has an opportunity to cut a gordian knot. 

Eeason is the faculty to judge what is true, good and useful, from all what is false, 
bad and injurious; therefore far supericr to any religious belief. Is there enough true 
patriotism to save the country from destruction by the influence of reason? 

As the wisdom of fathers or jjovernments is a blessing ou their children or subjects 
for generations after ; so is their folly a curse on them. Folly is sin, and sin is liab e 
to punishment, it m ly be individual or national. 

Uur lorefathers did n^ it traflic with the negroes with a good conscience. They knew, 
it was natural and good for men, to earn their bread with the sweat of their brow. 

The time of punishment has airived, and will persecute us until wa have found a 
remedy to cure the evil, which wuuld be how to get rid of the negroes, with a clear 
conscicBce and profit to the natiou. We cannot colonize or emancipate them with a 
clear conscience. «.Md diseases ol ten require despei ate remedies, of a character that 
the relation of the patient will not ahow applied, and the patient dies helpless. To 
find a remedy, we must throw ail prejudue asiue, and with the dignity and power 
of white men, take help from the clear fountains of truth. 

1st. Let the government take all colored persons, containing more than one-fourth 
of negro blood, for the purpose nf redeeming all treasury notes, North and t^ouih; 
and to give pensions to all disabled so diers; and for the support of the wives and 
children of deceased soldiers, in all the iStatea from Maine to lexas. 

2d. Let every colored child, with more than one-fuurth of negro blood, born after 
they are 1902, if male be castrated; if lemale spayed 

ad. ISlavery of any kind is inconsistent witci a republican form of governments 
therefore ne^ro siaveryf should be entirely abolished, and all issued colored person 
should De called by no other name than negro property. 

4Lh, 'lo suppress the accuaiuiation of ricoes, luxury and avarice, (the natural con- 
sequences of such law?,) one-tenth oi the value of all negro labor should be giveu to the 
poor in Europe, or some other disinterested purpose, clear of the expenses of collect- 
ing and diotri Outing those sacrifices. 

6th Isio more Chinese, Mexicans or other colored races, should be permitted to be- 
come citizens or rpsidents of the United States. 

6th To extiiig ish the different nationalities, ad European, (Jews included,) Chi- 
nese, Mexicaih dud Indians, in the Slates, should not marry in their own species of 
national lies X 

7th. A pyramid to be built, higher, than any structure on earth, somewhere in 
the centre of Ivorth America, in honor of the slain, in the battles between the North 
and aouth ; and all workmen on this structure are supposed to speak English ; but 
those who cannot; shall have two hours every day to attend school, during working 
hours 

These doctrines will be opposed,§ but the essence of these laws must be enforced 

*TheJauthor is alluding here to men, who want to emancipate the negroes, and as a natural consequence 
enslave tliemselves. 

tThe word negro-slavery is humbug. Slavery means servitude of one man to another without the 
consent of the servant. It can be applied only to men and not to negroes. But ereu if the world re- 
cognizes them as man it is humbug ; because negroes are voluntary servants, in their natural as well ai 
in their civilized state, who only prosper and are happy, when they have masters; without such, they 
are miserable. Free negroes will be otfensive to the society of this country. They will hate white men, 
because they are hated. Xegroes as property, love their masters, because their masters love them. A 
jilanter loves his negroes more than a New Kngland farmer his cattle, because his negroes are more fw 
viceabie and faithful to him, than all the rest of his domestic animals. 

tMarrying blood-relation of the fourth or fifth grade is self-pollution in a small degree. 

iBecause humbug kas a premium at present ; and truth is at discount in the literarj market. 



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or the nation will perish. It is our duty to help ourselves ; but if we insist upon our 
prejudices and passions, unbecoming to civilized white men, other nations will inter- 
fere and govern us. We are too much degenerated, for the majority of our people 
to appreciate the>se doctrines, but if there is a spark of the fire of Prometheus alive 
"in us, these laws will be gospel and the nation saved. '■* 

All the objections in the way of our freedom and progress we have removed, ex- 
cept the negro question. Jf we cannot ovorcome it, we deserve to be trampled upon 
by other nations. We have a right to enforce such laws, by answering the question: 
• ''Which shall go under, the United btates or tbe negro?" Is not the earth given to 
white njen, to conquer and rule it? Have we not as much right to alter the rising 
generation of the negroes, as we h^ve to aiter our colts, calves or pigs ; and it is not 
so cruel, as to send those negroes, which are accustomed to civilized lile, to another 
country, to starve there lor want of energy and industry to make a living. The 
sufl'erings and claicoiiugs of such negroes wc>nld bring unavoidable punishment 
upon us. 

The emancipation of the negr> es in the country would result in the increase of 
colored citizens. Colored people will marry white people for their pride, and white 
people will have connection with the colored race fur pleasure s sake. 'J'he penalty 
•of death does not prevent the races from amalgamating. Although it is a greater 
sin, fur white people, in this country, to have connection with negroes than it is to 
have connection with other domestic animals 'i he former results with increase the 
of the national weed, and the latter is a sin, only affecting the individual's soul and 
body who commits the act. It is a fact tnat apparently barren negro-wenches, after 
havmg couneciion white men get to be with child, isot the quantity, but it is the 
quality of people, what make a gre^t nation. 

'1 he disguft with the doctrine of ca.--trating and spaying the newborn negroes, arise 
more from ignorance, animal sympathy and mock modehty than from a noble judg- 
ment. 'J hibkiog men will appreciate those doctrines. 

Men, like animals, when they see something strange or monstrous, are afraid of it. 
After they examine those strange objects, they get familiar with them. When runa- 
way negroes in Texas, on their way from the settlements to Mexico, fall into the 
hands of the Comanche Indians, they treat them neither as friends or enemies, but 
take them for what they really are. They castrate them and keep them as the rest 
of their live stock, negro slavery being as strange to them as horse or ox slavery is 
with us. 

'i'heir limited intellect is not polluted with the Mosaic doctrine on the original of 
the human race, in spite of the efforts of the clergy to do so, for the last 200 jears. 

But, as the Comanchts are bad surgeons, and these negroes are adults, it is likely 
that many of iheiii die under tlie operation At the same time they are anxious to 
steal white women and ch.ldren, to keep np their tribe, which is decreasing on ac- 
count of venereal diseases, which the white man has introduced, and they do nut 
know how lo cure. 

It is considered a crime with them to castrate a cult or calf, and inhuman to am- 
putate a diseased limb of a man. 'Ihey act as philosphers by castrating the negroes 
and stealing the whites ; and as savages, by abhorring castrating of colts and calves, 
and amputating diseased limbs. 

If we want to keep the supremacy of the white race, we should not bo ashamed to 
cultivate certain wise actions of other nations or tribes — even to the Comanche 
Indians. 

The duty of Government is to preserve unity and peace, and if necessary promote 
weliare in the nation it represents. 

Its action should resemble the creating power of nature, which produces and sup- 
ports everything, as good and perfect, as it can be done ; but in serious, extraordi- 
nary cases, they should bear in mind that human nature is confined as the rotation 
of seasons in the year ; but intellect is supernatural, and almighty on earth as an 
■ omnipotent God. Evils may become blessings by properly managing them. 

♦Because, the propagatiou of these doctrines will have the beueficiul effect; that time and health with 
the burplus powers of white men's muscle aud biain ; (heretofore speut in feeding vanities and passions,) 
will perform tiuch divine actious; u« to malwe every citiien of the United States feel proud of being an 
Amenoiui. 



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The J)resent war, if it should terminate in the restoration of the Union and the 
final, reasonable, and gradual disposal of the negroes, will prove a benefit to the 
country. 

When we study the history of nations past, and see the current of our present af- 
fair?, we have a gloomy future before us. To stop the current of national affairs is a 
task, that never has been done by a republican government Is anything impossible, 
because it never has been done? It can be done. This should be sufficient for a 
nation of freemen to do it at once. 

By doing it, we shall confuse the heads of the European aristocrats, who predict 
our destruction in this war. We show the world a nation of free white men, who 
take the lead in the reaction of the dfgenerated white race. 

Out future relations to Europe, will be like tbe Turk who told his Slave . Slave if 
you disobey, you get a whipping; and if you obey, you get a whipping also. 

By setting the negroes free, we will weaken ourselves so much, that it will be an 
easy tusk for the European powers, to divide this country among themselves, by 
commencing war, perhaps under the pretence of an American insult, to the white 
race, by setting negroes on equality with white men. 

By taking the negroes for what they really are, they will accuse us of barbarism, 
and likely commence war under pretence of Christianity, but we can have a succeas- 
ful war with the whole of Europe, because we fight for our physical, moral and intel- 
lectual freedom, for the greatest reform of the civilized world. 

There is no earthly remedy for our chaos of difficulties, therefore we should look 
up to the Seven Pointers of the North Star. 

PATRIOT, 
Fr(ym T&tas. 



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